Summary of the Graduation
The twenty sixth chapter of tuesdays with Morrie, entitled Graduation, is about Morrie’s death and funeral. First he goes into a coma, and the moment no one is in the room to keep an eye on him, he dies. Albom believes he planned his death this way, “I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and me haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother’s death-notice telegram or by his father’s corpse in the city morgue.” The funeral later on was held at the beautiful place Morrie had chosen to be buried. Albom ends the chapter with part of the poem by E. E. Cummings, that Morrie’s son, Rob, read at the funeral.